The international season of skeet shooting is approaching quickly and the rallies and training of the blue teams are following one another just as quickly. In addition to the shooters of Double Trap, who went to the United Arab Emirates for targeted preparation, from yesterday, Monday 15 February 2016, until Thursday 18, the intensive training will also cover shooters of Skeet. In this case the national team found itself a Todi, to be precise at the TAV Umbriagreen, under the orders of the Technical Director Andrew Benelli. These are eight athletes called up and who will alternate between specific work on the platform and training in the gym with Professor Fabio Partigiani, the athletic trainer of all the Italian shooting teams.
The male list includes the names of the Pistoian people Riccardo Filippelli (Italian Army), the Sardinian Luigi Agostino Lodde (Italian Army), the Roman Valerio Luschi (Carabinieri) and the Tuscan Gabriele Rossetti (Fiamme Oro). The shooters present in Umbria, on the other hand, are Tuscany Diana Bacosi (Italian Army), Chiara Cainero from Friuli (State Forestry Corps), Simona Scocchetti from Lazio (Italian Army) and Katiuscia Spada (Flames) who “plays at home”, being originally from Fabro, in the province of Terni.
As Benelli himself underlined, the work is continuing with the usual commitment, given that the events in which Skeet shooters will be protagonists this year are well present in mind. As usual, then, the inevitable reference went to Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games which will begin next August: according to the technical commissioner, among the eight athletes just listed there will be four that will be proposed for participation in the important event.
The international season will start in March and the goal is to always remain competitive in every race. Skeet is the most recent discipline admitted to the Olympics (since Atlanta '96) and originates from an American sport that can be considered its ancestor, Around the clock. The shots are carried out by eight platforms that are arranged in a semicircle and at the ends of which are placed the machines that throw the targets, one to the left (pull) and one to the right (mark).
When the target comes out, the shooter does not take up the weapon and has access to it only one shot for each target (therefore two in total). The main difficulty of this discipline is represented by the different position of the athlete with respect to the machines and by the time of the launch, since it can go from a minimum of 0 to a maximum of 3 seconds from the call of the shooter.